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Show ONLY A MISDEMEANOR. Colored Shooter Generously Treated by Jury Which Tried Him. Guilty of battery was the verdict against Robert Hatch, a negro, re-turnod re-turnod yesterday eyenlng by tho Jury In the case of the State vs. Hatch. He will come before Judge Lewis on Thursday morning at 10 o'clock for sentence. Hatch was charged with having committed com-mitted an assault with a deadly weapon weap-on on one Fenton, also a negro, with a loaded revolver on April 12 last. District Dis-trict Attorney Smith asked for a conviction con-viction on the Indictment, but Hatch's attorney, Fred C. Loofbourow, contended contend-ed that the evidence submitted did not warrant a verdict of guilty. The vor-dlct vor-dlct returned convicts Hatch only of a misdemeanor, whereas under the Indictment In-dictment he was liable to be punished for a felony. |